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SJ. Jan Mayen ( Urban East Norwegian: [jɑn ˈmɑ̀ɪən]) [1] is a Norwegian volcanic island in the Arctic Ocean with no permanent population. It is 55 km (34 mi) long (southwest-northeast) and 373 km 2 (144 sq mi) in area, partly covered by glaciers (an area of 114.2 km 2 (44.1 sq mi) around the Beerenberg volcano ).
- 377 km² (146 sq mi)
- 0 (up to 35 non-permanent residents)
- 2,277 m (7470 ft)
- Arctic Ocean
The Jan Mayen class is a Norwegian Coast Guard ship class built in the 2020s, that was designed and ordered to replace the ageing Nordkapp -class offshore patrol vessels . Considerably larger than their predecessors, the hulls of these ships were constructed at the Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania. [1] The hulls were then towed to Norway where ...
Oct 15, 2014 · Jan Mayen, the most northerly island along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, is one of them. As a Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on a Lindblad Expeditions adventure into the High Arctic, I had an amazing opportunity to visit this remote volcanic island spilling five glaciers into the Arctic Ocean on July 6, 2014.
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Two weeks before anchoring off the shore of Jan Mayen, I had no idea the island, or its massive volcano, existed. Alyssa Larson and I boarded our boat, the 60-foot Aurora Arktika, in Isafjordur, Iceland on a Monday and arrived, terribly seasick and shaken, to the arctic Norwegian island of Jan Mayen on Friday.
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300 years ago, the small Arctic island of Jan Mayen was a prolific whaling station. In just 50 years, the wild population was hunted to near extinction. Left uninhabited, it wasn’t until August 1921 that a British party led by Shackleton’s former geologist, Sir James Mann Wordie, visited the island to undertake its first geological study.
The island. Jan Mayen is a remote Norwegian island located at 71°N/8°W in the Arctic Ocean, about 600 kilometers northeast of Iceland, 500 km east of Greenland, and approximately 1000 km west of Norway. The island is approximately 55 km long from southwest to northeast and covers an area of about 373 square kilometers (see map).
